Well done Phil, just spent an hour trawling the roads around Kings Norton station on Google Map trying to identify this site.The bus is in Station Road ... compare the houses on the right.
This bus was on the 65 route in 1966 when it overturned. Reading the number plate looks like MOF 148 or 149. I would think local newspapers would have reported about the accident and if anyone has access to Birmingham Mail archives we might be able to find out how and why it happened.
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Thanks that was quick. Hopefully the children were not too seriously injured.
Presumably the bus, as it was a SPECIAL taking the children to the baths at Nechells Green, was moving at a reasonable speed as it was not picking up or setting down passengers. Fifteen hurt out of thirty three is a large number but fortunately there were no fatalities. It could be down to the strength of the older style of well built BCT bus.
Someone may have already said that the picture of VWK223 in WM livery is at the junction of Vicarage Road and Alcester Road South in Kings Heath. This was the early days WMPTE when the remaining rear entrance buses were drafted onto the Outer Circle as the OMO equipment couldn't cope with so many stages.The first one alongside the now demolished 'Duke of York' Top of the High St on the Outer Circle
2 nd definitely 'The Baldwin.'
And another one, 3247 is negotiating the roundabout at the Baldwin in Hall Green as it sets off on its cross city jaunt.The first one alongside the now demolished 'Duke of York' Top of the High St on the Outer Circle
2 nd definitely 'The Baldwin.'
The Midland Red circular plates were only for use within the city boundary. Unless there was a special reason to separate the Midland Red stops, the Midland Red observed the BCT stops. Outside the city boundary the Midland Red used their own rectangular stop signs usually on concrete posts rather than the metal posts used in Birmingham.
West Bromwich bus stops had a hanging plate suspended from a bracket arm on the post. I think there was a colour difference between compulsory and request stops.
I always thought that the Compulsory stops meant a Stage point on the route because the fare was so many pence per stage.
Always thought compulsory stops were called limited stops.